Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Pre-Frankfurt, Frankfurt and Other Book News

With the Frankfurt Bookfair starting today there
has already been lots of bookish news emerging with pre-emptive book deals
already taking place.

According to the Bookseller,
Simon and Schuster won the auction for the UK and Commonwealth rights to a
psychological drama by former Guardian journalist Sarah Vaughan.Anatomy of a Scandal will be published in
January 2018.

Michael Joseph won the auction rights to a new
debut thriller by C J Tudor called The
Chalk Man.The book is due to be
published in hardback on 11th January 2018 and according to
publishing director Maxine Hitchcock in the
Bookseller it has all the ingredients to become one of the great contemporary thrillers.

HarperCollins
UK and Harper Collins US (William Morrow) have snapped up the rights to the
debut psychological novel The Woman in the Window.Written by William Morrow’s own vice president
and executive editor Daniel Mallory it was submitted under the pseudonym A J
Finn.The film rights have already been
sold to Fox 2000.

According to the Bookseller,
Corvus are to publish Troll a
psychological thriller by David Thorne as part of a three book deal.

If you have not heard the news already then
according to the Guardian
Irvine Welsh’s 2009 novel Crime is
being adapted for the television. Crime is
about a detective inspector who has fled to Miami following a mental breakdown.
In Florida, a coke-fuelled binge brings him into contact with 10-year-old
Tianna, a victim of a sex crime, which brings back memories of a harrowing
child-sex murder case back in Edinburgh.

Un-agented author T A Cotterell’s debut novel has
been acquired by Transworld.What Alice Knew, will according to the Bookseller
be published on 20th April 2017.

The Seven
Lives of Evelyn Hardcastle a debut novel by Stuart Turton has been sold to
Bloomsbury. According to Harry Illingworth of DHH Literary Agency in the Bookseller,
The Seven Lives of Evelyn Hardcastle
has been described as Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day, by way of Agatha
Christie.

Julia Wisdom has according to Booktrade info
acquired two more thrillers from best-selling Swedish writer Lars Kepler. Both
thrillers will feature Joona Linna, the maverick detective first introduced in
the Sunday Times Bestseller The Hypnotist.

According to World
Screen Laurence Bowen’s newly formed indie company has acquired the rights
to adapt the novels of bestselling author Alastair Maclean. Maclean’s best
known novels include The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles
Dare.The first novel to be turned into
a four or six part event mini-series will be San Andreas.